When I was a full-time trainer in the Microsoft MCSE track . I noticed that many of the colleges avoided Microsoft Exchange training like it was the plague. It was put succinctly to me by one college administrator who said that students who enter Microsoft Exchange classes “fall into a black hole.”

While at the time, I was not an Exchange guru, so I didn’t understand his point. Then I got an opportunity to become a guru and write a book about Microsoft Exchange 5.5.

That experience fully enlightened me into the black hole experience known as Microsoft Exchange.

It is small wonder that certification candidates look at MS 70-662 and become rooted in a fear that can only be described as a fate worse than death.

I’m delighted to report there is hope however. J. Peter Bruzzese has teamed up with trainsignal.com to create over 20 hours of video training. The beauty is while it doesn’t excellent job of covering MS 70-662, it also includes a full version of the Transcender’s practice exam.

The course outline should give you an indication of just how much training you are getting on the three DVDs. While the syllabus lists 40 lessons, there are more .X lessons (Lesson 36.2, Lesson 37.2)  than you got fingers.

It is a pleasure to see courseware availability that is: on video while addressing both getting your brain wrapped around Microsoft Exchange without falling into the black hole.

For those looking to become Microsoft certified it is a well rounded course. Of course I am prejudiced. I have enjoyed following J. Peter for a number of years.

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Interference

If you’re on a wireless connection, interference could be causing the problem. Other electronic devices that emit signals can cause interference which will negatively affect your ability to connect to the WiFi network. For example, radio signals, television signals, cell phone signals and other similar signals could interrupt your WiFi network signal.

Network Problems

In some cases, the problem may be with your Internet service provider. For example, there could be faulty installation or equipment to blame for your below-average speed. Sometimes, the network is down for everyone in your area because of a technical problem with the service provider. If your Internet is down for long time, you may want to call the company and see if anyone else is having the same problem in your area. If you are having problems at your business, there could be a problem with the T1 Internet line running to the building. One way or the other, the best idea is to call the company and have their customer service department process your complaint. More often than not, ISPs are very prompt about responding to problems.

Viruses and Malware

In some situations, the slow Internet may not be the fault of your Internet connection at all. Sometimes, viruses, worms or malware can get on your computer, which slow down the speed of your Internet connection. These items can get onto your computer when you download a bad file or visit a dangerous website. When this happens, you may need to get a good piece of antivirus software and run it on your computer to get rid of the problem.

Router Settings

Sometimes, the problem with slow Internet is caused by problems with the router settings. If you have the MTU setting on your router in the wrong place, it can make your Internet slow down. If you don’t know how to adjust the settings on your router, you may need a representative from the Internet service provider to come and adjust things for you. Once the settings are changed on your router, you may be able to enjoy much faster speeds online.

Other Programs

If you’re running too many programs on your computer at the same time, it can slow down your Internet speed. Close out of all of the other applications that you’re not using and see if this helps speed up your computer.

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As I heard another MCT in a conversation with a student that had just ‘done reconnaissance mission’ on 70-646, I had to giggle. The conversation went like this:

Real-time candidate: “I can’t believe it! I have five years experience!”

MCT: “tell me, do you have five years experience or one years experience five times?”

That comment knocked me on my head. It did so because it really brought home the ugly reality of a Microsoft certification. Yes I would agree that it is theoretically possible a test candidate could survive and pass 70-646 with one years experience. I would also further state that the theoretical possibility hover somewhere between a chance known as slim or none.

This can only be accomplished by a candidate who was following around a mentor doing completely different tasks. It is much more common for an employer hiring someone to only do a subset of all the possible situation that can be found on the test.

This is where a good MCT comes in. To me, without a doubt one of the best in the business is Ed Leiberman. Over at http://trainsignal.com he has 19 lessons for this exam covering almost 16 hours.

Thankfully the 19th lesson covers the dreaded R2 questions. If you training material does not specifically cover

New Hyper-V Machine Configuration
Creating a New Single Volume
Installing Hyper-V Role
Creating a New Hyper-V Machine
Virtual Machine Connection Window Buttons
Installing Virtual Windows 2008
Installing Virtualization Extensions

Save you money and the embarrassment of a reconnaissance mission.

As a career trainer and author I can appreciate the efficiency of learning by video. I was a little surprised to find out that the material trainsignal.com puts out also gets a copy of Transcender®.

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Gartner’s recent Magic Quadrant report for enterprise firewalls, brought a new player into the first position, the Palo Alto Networks. Cisco has stayed behind this new generation security concept and they are now trying to catch up with the announcement of next generation capabilities in the new Cisco ASA CX product line. The new Cisco direction in network security was announced by Chris Young, senior vice president of Security, in RSA Conference 2012.

The new Cisco ASA CX products will be “context aware” and therefore they can provide protection against application threats and also offer inspection and traffic access control towards popular “micro-applications”, such as games in facebook or gambling apps in other popular websites. The new firewalls can also control access towards more than 1000 applications (facebook, twitter, google+, linkedin etc) and more than 75,000 micro applications for more granular context-aware control. So the main idea that we can take from this announcement is that the CX ASA product line will be centered around granular application, user and device control and better visibility in the network traffic. Just keep in mind also that in order to provide this comprehensive end-to-end security posture, the Cisco ASA CX must cooperate with other Cisco security products and solutions, such as Cisco SecureX Framework, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, and Cisco SIO (Security Intelligence Operations) for global threat intelligence data.

There are new Cisco ASA models available now, which will be under the CX framework. Specifically, the following new models were introduced:

• ASA 5512-X
• ASA 5515-X
• ASA 5525-X
• ASA 5545-X
• ASA 5555-X

At the moment there is not much documentation and explanations about the new features introduced in those new models, so we can not describe them in more detail. We will come back again after more info is available.

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PlayStation Vita
The February launch of the PlayStation Vita is an important one for Sony and its hordes of fans. It will be the first major portable gaming device to emerge from the company since the PlayStation Portable in 2004. The Vita is a hardware powerhouse, featuring a quad-core processor, five-inch OLED touchscreen display and plenty of media capabilities to complement its gaming credentials. It also has some unique interface features, with dual analogue sticks providing great control. There is also a secondary touch-sensitive area mounted on the back of the Vita in order to encourage game developers to dream up new ways to interact with their titles. With triple-A games such as Uncharted: Golden Abyss launching alongside the Vita, it should have a good chance of making its mark in 2012.

Apple iPad 3
Although official details relating to the iPad 3 have yet to be published, it seems relatively easy to guess what features will be included in the finished product. A higher-resolution screen that follows in the footsteps of the iPhone 4′s Retina Display seems like a certainty, as does a quad-core processor based on the A6 chipset developed by ARM. Meanwhile, the measly camera of the iPad 2 is a prime candidate for an upgrade, perhaps adding full HD 1080p video capture to the mix.

Samsung Galaxy S3
The Galaxy S3 is perhaps the most exciting mobile-phone launch of 2012. It follows on from last year’s Galaxy S2, which sold millions of units and set the bar with its dual-core processor and 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus display. The Galaxy S3 is likely to up the ante with a quad-core processor and high-definition resolution on another expansive Super AMOLED Plus screen. It is thought that the screen will measure up to 4.7 inches for this iteration in order to keep up with rival models from HTC and LG.

3D Optical Finger Mouse
One of the odder gadgets destined to arrive in 2012 is this alternative to the traditional computer mouse. It fits around your index finger using a strap and then fires out a laser, letting you move the cursor while you have both hands hovering over your keyboard, which should save time while you are typing. The initial version will have a USB connection, although hopefully a wireless edition will be launched at a later date to free up your fingers even further.

Night Scope Binoculars
These night-vision binoculars are designed with a chunky plastic finish, which makes them perfect for kids and adults alike. They work perfectly well in standard daylight, but after dark a little pop-up IR emitter lets you see the world around you long after the sun has dipped below the horizon.

If you want to watch nature in your garden at night without alerting the animals to your presence, or just sneak up on your friends undetected for a bit of fun, this is the gadget for you.

About the Author:

The above article is composed and edited by Eva K. She is associated with many SEO and Technologies communities as their freelance writer and adviser. In her free time she writes articles related to seo, technology stuffs, social media, cell phones articles etc.

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1. Pros and Cons of Powersuite Golden 2012

To be honest with you, my first introduction to SpeedUpMyPC was via several positive testimonials I’ve came across online when I was searching to find ways to improve the speed of my computer. I figured that if this product was being praised that much from reputable sources on the Internet, then there may just be something to it. I even saw some real life people giving a SpeedUpMyPC review and testimonial on one commercial. So I decided to check this software out, and write a SpeedUpMyPC  review of my own. As a side note, this tool is a product from Uniblue which is a reputable company in the field of computer optimization.

Hopefully, this SpeedUpMyPC review will help you determine if this is the software your computer needs to start running quicker and more efficiently.

SpeedUpMyPC  Review – An Overview of the product

Before we get too far into this SpeedUpMyPC review, let’s take a few minutes to discuss exactly what SpeedUpMyPC is, and how it will help you to enhance the speed of your computer system.

SpeedUpMyPC is mainly a program that will perform several deep and automated tweaks and modifications to several computer settings which are known to slow down computers. It first scans your computer and Internet connection to look for problems. This is very similar to what you might think of when your anti-virus software does its thing. SpeedUpMyPC will locate problems, diagnose them and then implement various settings’ tweaking and performance boosting tasks to help remedy the technical issues that slow down your system.

To make a long story short – SpeedUpMyPC finds problems related to slow computer speed, determines what those problems are and then uses some of the included intelligence to get those problems fixed for good. It does exactly what I’d expect this kind of software to do, and seems pretty thorough in its ability to both locate and resolve common issues that slow computers down.

How will SpeedUpMyPC Help You

As a computer user, you will get the following benefits by using SpeedUpMyPC:

• Overall enhancement of computer speed.
• Optimized and faster Internet speed (faster loading of websites etc).
• Programs will launch faster.
• Computer will boot up faster.
• Cleaning of junk files from hard disk.
• More responsive windows interface and windows search.

But don’t take my word for it. I suggest you to download the program from the official website and perform a FREE performance Scan to see what problems are slowing your system down and how this tool can help you.

SpeedUpMyPC Features & Details

• Designed for people who aren’t necessarily computer savvy or for those who are, but simply want a simple, no nonsense solution to every day computer-slowing problems.
• Works by way of simple, one-click commands. In other words, you don’t have to deal with a lot of complicated menus to put SpeedUpMyPC into action.
• Lists the problems that it finds. It’s nice to know exactly what the problems plaguing your PC are, and this software suite gives you a detailed list of the problems that it encounters and repairs.
• Manages start-up programs. These days, some computers can have dozens, or hundreds of star-up programs running, and many people aren’t even aware of them being executed. This is a big reason that so many computers boot up or run slowly, and SpeedUpMyPC helps to manage this all-to-common problem efficiently.
• Manages running processes and disables services and processes that are not necessary. These services are usually resource-hungry and they take up too much memory and processor load.
• Relatively low price. Compared to similar registry cleaning and computer optimization utilities, SpeedUpMyPC is very reasonably priced and what I would consider to be very affordable for just about everyone.

Below are some screenshots of the product when I installed and tested it on my own computer:

SpeedUpMyPC  Pros & Cons

Now that we’ve covered the brass tacks of this program, let’s get down to the nitty gritty. I’m not going to do a song and dance, telling you that this is the perfect computer fixing program, because it’s not. To make this a fair, balanced SpeedUpMyPC review I wanted to let you in on the good – and the bad – about this software, so you can decide whether or not it will help with your computer slowness issues.

Pros

• Great at managing unwanted start-up programs and processes. As I’ve said earlier, too many of the wrong kind of start-up programs can bring computers to a screeching halt. This program does a great job at resolving these types of problems.
• Adjusts as you need it. The SpeedUpMyPC software delves into your Internet connection, and actually helps to tweak the internet settings on the fly. What this does is helps your PC to make the most of your Internet connection – resulting in faster web browsing.
• Easy to use. If you don’t know a lot about tweaking computers, or simply don’t want to fuss with complicated software, you’ll find the one-click user interface of the SpeedUpMyPC software very simple to work with.
• You would need a computer science degree if you actually wanted to speed up your PC manually by yourself. SpeedUpMyPC will do anything needed for a fast computer automatically.
• The price is right. This software costs much less than similar programs from other manufacturers.

Cons

• Not enough prevention. It’s great that this program cleans up common PC issues that slow down your computer, but it would be even better if it had some tools to help protect against future threats.
• Problem lists aren’t super-detailed. Even though most people don’t really want a lot of technical details about their computer problems – they just want them fixed – it would still be nice to get a bit more information about the problems fixed, as this information may help some more advanced users avoid similar problems down the road.

SpeedUpMyPC Review Conclusion

Having looked into all the good and bad points of SpeedUpMyPC, I would recommend it to anyone who has been having computer slowness issues. This software is great at locating and removing the most common types of threats that tend to slow down computers. It’s not the most robust computer fixing and optimization software available, but it should help the majority of PC owners get their slowness issues identified and resolved, without requiring a lot of effort from computer owners. Click the button below for a Free performance scan with SpeedUpMyPC tool.

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• Everything you could ever want or need to keep your computer functioning optimally is included.
• Easy to use for anyone, even for people who have little to no understanding of computers.
• The ability to recover your computer from a crash, virus, bluescreen and blackscreen.
• Even with a dead computer, you will be able to reboot your system with the included Spotmau Bootsuite product.

Now that I have gone over some of the pros, I have to list the cons as well. But, the only con is that it has so many features that Powersuite Golden can be overwhelming to some people.

Note that Powersuite Golden is a product of Spotmau Corporation. This company has been acquired by Wondershare corporation, which is also offering the same product with a different name. If you buy from Spotmau, the products are called Powersuite Golden, Powersuite 2012 and Bootsuite 2012. If you buy the products from Wondershare they are called Powersuite Golden 2012, WinSuite 2012 and LiveBoot2012.

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Some useful observations about this setup:

• The firewire connection is not just a channel that allows the transit of audio and video. In many cases it gives the possibility to control the camcorder from the PC directly via virtual buttons to play, record, stop, etc . This greatly simplifies the task of searching through the video.
• Also, thanks to the firewire link, you can set with timelines specifying the start and end frame for each sequence. In this way the PC will be able to start the search for sequences on the camcorder tape and store them all with different names, without us lifting a finger. This technique is called “batch capture” and can be done in the background.
• Thanks to the Firewire connection, PC can capture formats other than DV. There are very few capture devices that use this connection to capture MPEG2. In these cases, the PC has to carry out an operation of recompression and conversion of native DV format to MPEG2.

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When you’re in an airport, you open your laptop to read or send e-mails, looking for a free Wi-Fi hotspot. And there it is! You almost always find one and connect to send and read your e-mails etc. What you do not take into consideration is that the free Wi-Fi may have a privacy cost associated with it: the data of your connection, your personal details and other important information can be stolen when you send your message, without having any idea that such a thing could happen. Before you know it, you’re calling Lifelock for identity theft protection because your personal information has been stolen, and soon, your identity.

What should make you suspicious is when there is a Wi-Fi hotspot with a name that is not recognized or resembles an official or even a celebrity name. Also, the user must be particularly cautious in hotspots that do not need password protection for access. The ‘magic’ of the data theft happens through a proxy technology, which monitors the Wi-Fi communication and captures and stores a copy of all your data on the hacker’s laptop. This process will slow down the traffic speed of your connection but in cases of networks with many users it is difficult to say with certainty whether the slow traffic is due to the theft of your data or because there are many users connected simultaneously.

Each time the user performs a task on the internet, whether buying staff online, checking your bank account or checking of email, the computer must send the login to the network, which is a goldmine for fraudsters on the internet. Under normal conditions the connection to a secure site (such as your bank site) must start with “https” instead of “http“, which means that traffic is encrypted. Some sophisticated hackers can even steal your encrypted communication (by proxying your connections through their own computer). For this reason, extreme caution is required when giving personal information and passwords in a public WiFi hotspot.

The threats to be aware while using public Wi-Fi:

• Evil twin login interception: networks set up by hackers to resemble legitimate Wi-Fi hotspots.
• 0-day OS / app attack attempts: attacking your computer and applications in order to get access to it using unknown and unpatched vulnerabilities.
• Sniffing: software or hardware that can capture and record the traffic passing over a network.
• Data leakage (man-in-the-middle attack): Cyber-criminals who can modify network traffic, leaving the impression that the user navigates the website of a bank for instance, while, in reality, traffic is passed first through the attacker’s computer.

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Love it or hate it, Microsoft Windows is a part of your life, at least in some way. It matters not if you personally use Linux or Macintosh. And unless you barter goods for services even if you don’t use Windows, Someone you are interacting with does. Even then, chances are they are using the venerable operating system.

It is a matter of future history that Windows 8 will land on planet Earth, and it will impact you. Let’s take a brief tour to see what is coming at you, one way or another.

The computers of yesteryear were character-based. Technically, we just didn’t have the spare machine power for a Graphical User Interface (GUI). Xerox had a research center known as PARC (Paolo Alto Research Center). They also had a small investment and a small computer company that sounded more like an orchard. They call themselves Apple Computer. At this research center, they daydreamed up things such as: the mouse, ethernet, and the GUI.

In the time period when Steve Jobs was considered a black sheep the Apple Board of Directors. He was ousted and worked on the NeXt computer. As CEO they had brought in the marketing maven John Scully, who wanted to go directly at IBM. IBM and Microsoft were in bed together. Bill Gates strong-armed Scully for licensing of GUI patents in exchange for MS office on the Mac.

Mr. Gates was having a fight with IBM over what to do with the next-generation operating system (OS/2), which included the GUI. The short story is IBM and Microsoft got a divorce. Windows sitting on top of a character-based operating system (DOS) stayed with Microsoft, while IBM got OS/2.

With hardware technological advances growing by leaps and bounds Gates wanted out of the limitations of DOS. He snagged Dave Cutler from DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) to work on NT. To this day Microsoft vigorously denies that stands for New Technology.

NT was created to address a multitude of issues with a DOS-based Windows. The two biggies being segmented memory, and the nonexistent security. Game programmers hated NT. The digital equivalent of checkpoint Charlie, every step of the way, crushed real-time game performance. Microsoft gadfly Alex St. John (an avid game developer in his spare time) solved that with DirectX.

In an effort to slide the consumer over, Microsoft released its last space Windows calling it Windows Me. It looked like NT-based Windows 2000 (really NT version 5) buying game developers a little more time to adopt DirectX. On the server-side Windows 2000 was the first iteration to adopt LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol). They called it Active Directory (AD).

Next came NT 5.1 which marketing called XP. It was the first time Microsoft offered Windows as either 32 or 64-bit code.

At this point Microsoft had a challenge. XP was carrying legacy code deep in its bowels from the mid-80s. A great deal of the tribal knowledge had either retired or died. They wanted to clean up NT’s act. The internally numbered NT 5.2 became the disaster known as Vista. While the effort was valiant, it broke a tone of applications. To make matters worse, they wanted to clean up the open door security that made it previously so easy to connect everything together. The challenge was it made it easy for the bad guys too. So Vista became a mother hen, are you sure? End users despised it.

So much so that when Windows 7 came along planet Earth was fearful of Vista: the sequel. That’s too bad because technically Windows 7 modernized security and had considerable improvements in everything from features to actually reducing resource needs by eliminating legacy garbage and have given time for application developers to catch up.

So here we said at the close of the year and Windows 8 is not even yet in beta. Yet there are some of us who have been living in Windows 8 since its release in late August 2011. The verdict?

So far Windows 8 looks like hot stuff. It’s resource needs are less than Windows 7. And they seem to be managing the impossible of addressing the demands of the desktop and a tablet-based computer. Microsoft is even going so far as to support the super low power processors known as ARM. Often these are found in smart phones and tablets.

Clearly they are looking to match Apple, which is merging OS X and IOS. OS X runs on desktops, while IOS is for iPhone, iPad, etc.

Microsoft claims that whatever runs on Win 7, it will run on Win 8. Overall, our experience of that has been true. Only a few applications have really choked. And it’s early in the game.

A word of warning to you. If you’re still on XP, plan for a complete reinstall. There will be no migration path. The underlying code has simply changed too much. It would be easier to convert your car from gasoline to diesel. If you’re thinking of staying on XP, think again. The operating system is over 10 years old, and has security issues that simply cannot be addressed. Forewarned is forearmed.

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